Boudewijn den Herder

I am Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Essent. After a career at Unilever and Heineken, I have now been working in the energy sector for more than 8 years. In that time a lot has changed enormously.

With large-scale and small-scale energy storage, we run less risk. Because we can store energy when there is a lot of wind and/or sun, and discharge the battery again when we need it, we avoid having to buy expensive energy. This helps tremendously in keeping energy bills more affordable over time. When there are eventually enough batteries in the high-voltage grid, fossil-fuel power plants can be turned off. So energy storage not only provides benefits for consumers and the grid, but also helps in achieving our climate ambitions.